JSE-listed Gijima has bought the local BMC Business Service Management business from African Legend Indigo (AL Indigo) for an undisclosed amount.
The deal boosts Gijima's client base locally and into Africa, as it will add clients in the financial services industry, commercial industry, telecommunications, and governments across African countries such as Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius, Kenya and Yemen.
Gijima is now a BMC elite partner and will provide enterprise service management (ESM) and mainframe service management solutions.
The deal also broadens Gijima's scope of service to its current client base. “The value of the acquisition to current customers and enterprises in sub-Sahara Africa is Gijima's ability to bring a comprehensive ESM solution set to market by reselling or offering a managed service,” says Steve Loubser, Gijima acting managing executive.
BMC, based in Houston, US, provides business service management software and cloud computing technology. Its clients include 96% of the Forbes Global 100 and 81% of Fortune 500 companies.
The BMC team has moved to Gijima to strengthen and complement Gijima's own BMC skill set. There are now 74 BMC skills focusing on BMC solutions within Gijima.
The listed company can now offer solution architects, implementation consultants, support and service engineers, comprehensive training and managed services, as well as share its own experiences as a BMC user, it says in a statement.
Gijima continues to trade under cautionary due to unrelated discussions that may have a material impact on its share price.
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